Sprint EVDO Rev A Coverage Sightings

mks · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject:

New to the board and a farily new EVDO user...as of late June. The site has been of great benefit to me. Thanks!

I posted yesterday a number of coverage/reception data sightings in the maps section, reflecting my various business & personal travels of late. Locations are Houston (& airport), Tulsa, Phoenix (& airport), Tucson (& airport), Amtrak trains, etc. I'm a business traveller with lot of VPN use. I hope this information will be of benefit to other readers. And I hope to keep posting results from my travels...

Thanks!
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MKS

Bigdave · EVDO Addict Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 1068

rlw · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject: West of Portersville, PA

At my brother-in-law's place, 3 miles west of Portersville, PA 16051 (about 35 miles north of Pittsburgh - right next to McConnell's Mill State Park), we were surprised to get a pretty respectable connection. His house is in a fringe area according to the Sprint coverage maps. There's a green shadow RIGHT over his property, along his lot lines, with orange all around him.

Here are the results:

Outside, on his deck:

Inside the house:

In both instances, I was using a Pantech PX500 installed in my laptop. We attached an external Wilson 3dB whip antenna at the focal point of a tin-foil parabolic reflector. The reflector was adjusted for maximum signal (pointing mostly NNW).

They currently have 26.4kbps dialup, if the planets are aligned and the data gods smile down upon them. They are kind of balking at the monthly cost, but were pretty impressed.

I thought I'd post this for anyone else in the area - might give them some hope. Smile

RLW

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1969

Sprint now claims to cover 211m population with RevA, was 203m a month or so ago. So it seems they may hit the target of over 230m pops with EVDO by end of the year. The voice network covers around 255m pops or so (I think near 270m when including Nextel sites). Some recently purchased/remaining affiliate areas may not get EVDO til next year.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070904005643&newsLang=en

ddolde · EVDO Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1

I have been using Sprint Broadband in Los Angeles for about six months. When I came home to small town Payson, Arizona I was pleasantly surprised that it was working even faster than in LA. Likely due to Nextel's coverage here but none the less it is working better than cable ever did here.

jackrodgers · EVDO Addict Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 1127

Finally getting the higher speed uploads in Okeechobee FL.

Ecstasis · EVDO Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Georgia

Add Tifton, GA to the RevA network list.

Here is my latest speed test:

Ignore the server milage, speedtest does not give me the proper physical location for some reason.

I'm using a Novatel U727 card.

SueAnn7 · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:40 am Post subject: Western N Carolina?

Hello everyone, I live just east of Asheville in Western N Carolina, I know for certain that Verizon just got EVDO revA here, but I'm very fond of Sprint, and wonder if they will get EVDO here too. I love when my phone flies on the net, and would like my pc to fly too! Thanks Very Happy

ssrjazz · EVDO Newbie Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

Sprint just completed their EVDO Rev A upgrades to the Columbia, Missouri (65201) area this morning. They'll be tweaking things for the next week or so, but we're LIVE!

My 755p has never been happier.

Live2FlyLow · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject:

SSRJazz....what type of speeds are you getting in Columbia, MO?

I live in Cape Girardeau, MO and the rumor is that we are next for Rev A. I'm looking forward to the possibility so I can dump my Wildblue Satellite account.

tech721 · EVDO User Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 30

ok im in west of texas odessa tx ev is poping up alot and im on sprint home only so i called sprint tech support and 8 of them tell me that its on future rev a but it hilighed orange and 6 of them that there not any ev at all so im like wtf its poping up and its steady speeds and elpaso tx even show now since yesterday ev rev a can anyone realy confirm thanks

northeast_missouri · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject: Any farther North?

Any news of expansion in northeast Missouri?

With the recent upgrades from Mexico, MO to Columbia, MO and a future tower in Eolia, MO, I'm hoping it's just a matter of time before expansion of EVDO heads farther north towards Bowling Green and Hannibal, MO along Highway 61. It's getting close. There's a lot of "dead zones" for any high-speed wireless broadband along Hwy 61 and there's not much competition with the exception of some local "Mom and Pop" shops that don't seem too interested in gaining customers. It's hard to even get a call back from these folks to do a signal check. I have a feeling they are going to wish they grabbed more subscriber contracts before Sprint rolls through.

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1969

EVDO is now all the way across I70 from KC to STL. I have no idea when Sprint will get to NE MO though. I'd think Cape Girardeau and St. Joe would be next.

eye one · EVDO Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 9

firedude · EVDO Junkie Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 413

Sprint evdo rev a now in San Luis Obispo/Morro Bay Ca. (central coast area) ..finally. No Verizon yet...